As Jed Mercurio’s police drama returns to screens, Gerard Gilbert looks as worst-behaving officers on television
The 2006 time-travelling cop show, in which John Simm’s enlightened modern policeman woke from a car accident in the thuggish policing era of 1973, spawned an accidental anti-hero in Philip Glenister’s swaggering bully-boy DCI Gene Hunt. He was a character so popular that he spawned a spin-off set in the early 1980s, Ashes to Ashes, in which Keeley Hawes was on the receiving end of his jocular chauvinism. Harvey Keitel played Hunt in the US version of Life on Mars.
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